Barry is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, on the north coastline of the Bristol Network roughly 9 miles (14 km) south-southwest of Cardiff. Barry is a seaside resort, with tourist attractions consisting of several coastlines the reanimated Barry Island Enjoyment Park. According to Office for National Statistics 2016 estimate information, the population of Barry was 54,673, making it the 3rd largest community in Wales, after Wrexham as well as Merthyr Tydfil. Once a little village, Barry has actually absorbed its larger adjoining towns of Cadoxton and Barry Island, and also now, Sully. It expanded dramatically from the 1880s with the advancement of Barry Docks, which in 1913 was the largest coal port in the world. The place was perhaps called after Saint Baruc. Barry is the management centre of the Vale of Glamorgan, and home to Barry Town United F.C. The road from Bonvilston was originally the B4266, as only Pontypridd Road within the town still is, and the road from Emphasize Park throughout the Vale to Bridgend was the B4265, as beyond Cardiff International Airport it still is. Because the 1970s, parts of these roadways are phoned number A4226, with the result that the A4226 emits from Weycock Cross roundabout in three instructions. The community is frequently related to Woodham Brothers scrapyard, a business that helped over 200 steam engines survive right into conservation. Although still a port, Barry is even more of a production town and as a solution centre for the Vale of Glamorgan. Barry Docks as well as the adjacent enterprise zone form the largest employment centre in the town. The docks, whose road web links were substantially enhanced with the opening of the Docks Link Road in 1981, now have direct road accessibility with the M4 motorway. The docks can take care of vessels as much as 23,000 tonnes and also the excellent tidal placement close to the deep-water channel of the Severn Estuary, enables scheduled sailings. With its transportation sheds, storage facilities and also open storage, the docks are equipped to take care of mass freights but with the scrapping of their previous electric cranes, ships' own derricks have to be used or cranes hired in by ABP as needed. 2 roll on/roll off berths are available and also have been made use of by routes to Ireland and also West Africa. As at January 2016, Intermodal raifreight traffic is being operated from No. 2 Dock. With a brand-new existence on the Mole in No. 1 Dock as well as the provision of a concrete slipway from it, recreation rowing and also dinghy cruising is offered (2016 ). The majority of commercial firms are located in the dock area. The biggest are the chemical producing issues such as Cabot Carbon and Dow Corning that not long ago finished the advancement of the biggest silicones plant in Europe. Other primary companies in Barry Docks are Jewson Builders' Merchants, Western Welding and also Engineering, Bumnelly, as well as Associated British Ports Holdings who, given that 1982 have actually run the docks as successors to the British Transport Docks Board. To the west of Barry is Porthkerry Park. This is a big location of open space, with woodlands, streams, and accessibility to a pebbly coastline. In the park is the former Barry Railway Company viaduct with 13 curved spans standing 110 feet high. Complying with the closure of the Vale of Glamorgan line to guests in between Barry and also Bridgend in 1964, it was reopened on 10 June 2005 as well as for the majority of its 19 miles, supplies a panorama and also link to Llantwit Major as well as past to Bridgend.